Georg Christian Ludolph Meyer

Georg Christian Ludolph Meyer (born June 8, 1742 in Hanover ; † May 25, 1812 there ) was a German trader , brewer , citizen representative , senator and treasurer . According to the Royal-Great Britain and Electoral-Braunschweig-Lüneburg state calendar for the year 1784 , Meyer was also a provisional member of the college of the Hanoverian orphanage and, in addition to his office as senator in the city council of Hanover, also worked as a forest inspector .

Fonts

The couple's tomb in the Old St. Nikolai Cemetery

Meyer was still writing at the time of the Electorate of Hanover

on August 22, 1794, a report to the Magistrate of the City of Hanover on the occasion of a widespread harsh conflict between the guilds and the rifle guilds due to an alleged "waste of time and money" by the "hustle and bustle" of the riflemen.

At the end of the 18th century, a manuscript on the technical buildings around the Leine in the course of Hanover, such as the summer bridge , the Leine flood in Hanover and the municipal waterworks under the title Description of the Leine, the resulting water floods, and deposited in the Hanover City Archives the city water works, designed in 1795 by Camerar: Meyer .

Tomb

The - listed - classical Meyers tomb and that of his wife Anne Dorothea , née Drosten (1739-1813), her son Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer (1774-1845) and her daughter-in-law Sophie Dorothea , née Versmann (1776-1862) can be found on the Old St. Nikolai cemetery in today's Mitte district . The standing monument, shaped as a rectangular block, has a curved upper end and stylized corner palmettes . A wreath, a winding ribbon and an amphora are also decorative elements of the tomb shaped in the classicism style. One of the inscriptions carved on three sides highlights the merits of the city treasurer, who was one of the former members of the city administration:

"His deeds stand around him in meetings,
each crowned with light,
each his gentle companion up to the judge."

literature

Johanna May: The Senators and Finance. in this: From the city government to bourgeois local politics. Development lines of the Hanoverian city policy from 1699 to 1824 (= publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 198). Hahnsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-7752-5812-4 , pp. 230-284; here: p. 250 and ö. (also dissertation 1998 at the University of Göttingen) ( limited preview in Google book search)

Web links

Grave information for Georg Christian Ludolph Meyer ... with a photo of the tombstone of Meyer and his wife on billiongraves.com

Individual evidence

^ Johanna May: The Senators and Combing. in this: From the city government to bourgeois local politics. Development lines of the Hanoverian city policy from 1699 to 1824 (= publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 198). Hahnsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hannover 2000, pp. 230–284; here: p. 250 and ö. (also dissertation 1998 at the University of Göttingen) ( limited preview in Google book search)
^ Matthias Rohlfs: Royal-Great Britain and Electoral-Braunschweig-Lüneburg State Calendar for the year 1784…. Johann Georg Berenberg, Hanover 1784, p. 151, 173. ( Preview in Google book search)
↑ Hans-Thorald Michaelis : Under a black-red-gold banner and the sign of the double-headed eagle. Failed armament of the people and unification efforts in the German national movement and in the German Rifle Federation 1859–1869. Elements of a German tragedy (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences . Volume 549). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-631-43578-9 , p. 34. ( limited preview in Google book search)
^ Arnold Nöldeke : Summer Bridge. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. 1: Hanover district. Issue 2: City of Hanover. Hanover 1932, p. 720f. (Reprint: Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of Hanover. (Incorporation until January 1, 1870). Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 )

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Georg Christian Ludolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German trader, brewer, citizen representative, senator and treasurer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1812
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Johanna May: The Senators and Combing. in this: From the city government to bourgeois local politics. Development lines of the Hanoverian city policy from 1699 to 1824 (= publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 198). Hahnsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hannover 2000, pp. 230–284; here: p. 250 and ö. (also dissertation 1998 at the University of Göttingen) ( limited preview in Google book search)

[2] Matthias Rohlfs: Royal-Great Britain and Electoral-Braunschweig-Lüneburg State Calendar for the year 1784…. Johann Georg Berenberg, Hanover 1784, p. 151, 173. ( Preview in Google book search)

[3] Hans-Thorald Michaelis : Under a black-red-gold banner and the sign of the double-headed eagle. Failed armament of the people and unification efforts in the German national movement and in the German Rifle Federation 1859–1869. Elements of a German tragedy (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences . Volume 549). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-631-43578-9 , p. 34. ( limited preview in Google book search)

[4] Arnold Nöldeke : Summer Bridge. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. 1: Hanover district. Issue 2: City of Hanover. Hanover 1932, p. 720f. (Reprint: Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of Hanover. (Incorporation until January 1, 1870). Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 )